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  • Fire and Water

    And Other Hawaiian Legends

    by Barbara Lyons ...
    Illustrated by Betty Rice ...
    Fire and Water is the first written collection of stories based on Hawaiian legends told on Maui. It is a classic Hawaiian children's book.The setting for this delightful collection of stories is the volcanoes and mountains, the blue seas, white sands, and clear skies of Maui Island in Hawaii-a place as rich in legends and myths as any in the world.Fire and Water is the first written collection of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Hawaii's Religions

    This is a comprehensive guide to the diverse religious history of Hawaii.Beginning with the religion of ancient Hawaii, depicting the arrival of the first missionaries, and, religion by religion, covering each faith as it came to Hawaii, the author thoroughly describes the inception and harmonious development of Hawaiian religions. Christianity, Judaism, Japanese and Chinese Buddhism, Shinto, the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Severing the Ties that Bind

    Government Repression of Indigenous Religious Ceremonies on the Prairies

    Series Book 7 - Manitoba Studies in Native History
    Religious ceremonies were an inseparable part of Aboriginal traditional life, reinforcing social, economic, and political values. However, missionaries and government officials with ethnocentric attitudes of cultural superiority decreed that Native dances and ceremonies were immoral or un-Christian and an impediment to the integration of the Native population into Canadian society. Beginning in ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Ojise

    Messenger of the Yoruba Tradition

    Ojise: Messenger of the Yoruba Tradition is a journal of the day-to-day activities and rituals that Karade encountered in his quest for priesthood in the Yoruba religion. Embedded in this journal are the very emotions, ideas and changes in his psyche-and the healing of soul - that occured on this journey. Karade explains the significance of the spiritual pilgrimage for people of all faiths. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Africa's Ogun

    Old World and New

    Edited by Sandra T. Barnes ...
    This landmark work of ethnography explores the enduring, global worship of the African god of war—with five new essays in this new, expanded edition.Ogun—the ancient African god of iron, war, and hunting—is worshiped by more than forty million adherents in Western Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas. This rich, interdisciplinary collection draws on field research from several continents to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Punjab Society: Perspectives and Challenges

    The Series-Contemporary Society: Tribal Studies-is an ongoing project. Every year one volume will be published under the project. Prof. Georg Pfeffer and Dr. Deepak Kumar Behera will edit all the subsequent volume to be published by Concept Publishing Company, New Delhi. ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • The Hopi Survival Kit

    The Prophecies, Instructions and Warnings Revealed by the Last Elders

    Series series Compass
    Now made public for the first time—an ancient Hopi spiritual guide that may hold the key to our survival in the next millenniumFor nearly a century the Elders of Hotevilla—a tiny village on a remote Hopi reservation in Arizona—have been guarding the secrets and prophecies of a thousand-year-old covenant that was created to ensure the well-being of the earth and its creatures. But the elders are ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $9.99 USD

  • North, South, East, West

    American Indians and the Natural World

    by Marsha C. Bol ...
    Vibrant photographs and moving quotes give tangible expression to a rich heritage of Native American beliefs and customs, and demonstrate how Native groups maintain viable cultures within mondern-day America. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Capacity Development Initiatives in Watershed Development Proceedings of Fifth International Danida Workshop on Watershed Development

    This compilation represents a labour of love to describe a tribal culture before it is lost in an ethnocide, which threatens our tribal peoples today more than ever. A scholar and a priest have collaborated to bring together head and heart with a commitment to, and an empathy for the Warlis. These tribals have a contribution to make a challenge to pose to us, for the tribal is the 'other' who ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Faces of the Gods

    Vodou and Roman Catholicism in Haiti

    Vodou, the folk religion of Haiti, is a by-product of the contact between Roman Catholicism and African and Amerindian traditional religions. In this book, Leslie Desmangles analyzes the mythology and rituals of Vodou, focusing particularly on the inclusion of West African and European elements in Vodouisants' beliefs and practices.Desmangles sees Vodou not simply as a grafting of European ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • They Knew Both Sides of Medicine

    Cree Tales of Curing and Cursing Told by Alice Ahenakew

    Series series Algonquian Text Society
    Born in 1912, Alice Ahenakew was brought up in a traditional Cree community in north-central Saskatchewan. As a young woman, she married Andrew Ahenakew, a member of the prominent Saskatchewan family, who later became an Anglican clergyman and a prominent healer. Alice Ahenakew's personal reminiscences include stories of her childhood, courtship and marriage, as well as an account of the 1928 ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Profiles in Wisdom

    Native Elders Speak About the Earth

    Taking the lead from John F. Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize winning Profiles in Courage, Steven McFadden presents the stories and thinking of 17 Native American spiritual elders. As our existing culture shifts, what do the ancient ones who have been trained in the sacred traditions of Turtle Island (America) have to say to us? With this question and others, journalist McFadden begins his quest to speak ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Native American Religion

    A History of Native American Religion

    Series series Religion in American Life
    Native Americans practice some of America's most spiritually profound, historically resilient, and ethically demanding religions. Joel Martin draws his narrative from folk stories, rituals, and even landscapes to trace the development of Native American religion from ancient burial mounds, through interactions with European conquerors and missionaries, and on to the modern-day rebirth of ancient ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Preserving the Sacred

    Historical Perspectives on the Ojibwa Midewiwin

    by Michael Angel ...
    Series Book 13 - Manitoba Studies in Native History
    The Midewiwin is the traditional religious belief system central to the world view of Ojibwa in Canada and the US. It is a highly complex and rich series of sacred teachings and narratives whose preservation enabled the Ojibwa to withstand severe challenges to their entire social fabric throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. It remains an important living and spiritual tradition for many ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Rastafari

    From Outcasts to Cultural Bearers

    Once an obscure group of outcasts from the ghettoes of West Kingston, Jamaica, the Rastafarians have transformed themselves into a vibrant movement, firmly grounded in Jamaican society and beyond. In Rastafari, Ennis Barrington Edmonds provides a compelling portrait of the Rastafarian phenomenon and chronicles how this group, much maligned and persecuted, became a dominant cultural force in the ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Mu-ga

    The Ritual Songs of Korean Mudangs

    This work is mainly comprised of a translation into English of four complete large-scale Korean Shaman ritual songs transcribed from tape recordings, which, until the present time, have remained either entirely untranslated, or, if otherwise, are only quoted in the form of brief excerpts in a few short articles. The song contents cover a broad regional spectrum which contain invaluablematerials ... Read more

    $24.00 USD

  • Islam in Post-Soviet Russia

    This book, based on extensive original research in the field, analyses the political, social and cultural implications of the rise of Islam in post-Soviet Russia. Examining in particular the situation in Tatarstan and Dagestan, where there are large Muslim populations, the authors chart the long history of Muslim and orthodox Christian co-existence in Russia, discuss recent moves towards greater ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Symbolic Blackness and Ethnic Difference in Early Christian Literature

    BLACKENED BY THEIR SINS: Early Christian Ethno-Political Rhetorics about Egyptians, Ethiopians, Blacks and Blackness

    by Gay L Byron ...
    How were early Christians influenced by contemporary assumptions about ethnic and colour differences?Why were early Christian writers so attracted to the subject of Blacks, Egyptians, and Ethiopians?Looking at the neglected issue of race brings valuable new perspectives to the study of the ancient world; now Gay Byron's exciting work is the first to survey and theorise Blacks, Egyptians and ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Ye Shall Know Them by Their Fruit

    The Jazzrah Chronicles

    by David L. Cain ...
    As the second installment of the Jazzrah Chronicles, Ye Shall Know Them by Their Fruit Jazzrah, Jazzrah discovers that his life was spared after risking it to save Cassandra Lewis the last soul that he was sent to collect for the demonic Bial. Despite the sentence charged against him for his former alliance with evil, Jazzrah commits to change his life by attempting to undo the evil deeds of his ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Recreating Africa

    Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441-1770

    Exploring the cultural lives of African slaves in the early colonial Portuguese world, with an emphasis on the more than one million Central Africans who survived the journey to Brazil, James Sweet lifts a curtain on their lives as Africans rather than as incipient Brazilians. Focusing first on the cultures of Central Africa from which the slaves came--Ndembu, Imbangala, Kongo, and others--Sweet ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Santeria

    The Beliefs and Rituals of a Growing Religion in America

    This book by Miguel De La Torre offers a fascinating guide to the history, beliefs, rituals, and culture of Santería — a religious tradition that, despite persecution, suppression, and its own secretive nature, has close to a million adherents in the United States alone.Santería is a religion with Afro-Cuban roots, rising out of the cultural clash between the Yoruba people of West Africa and the ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Human Face of Globalization

    From Multicultural to Mestizaje

    International immigration, massive migrations, economic globalization and a world-wide communications revolution have brought about a mixing of races, cultures and lifestyles unprecedented in human history. What are the implications of this phenomenon? What options present themselves…a battle of cultures for power; a move toward communitarian cooperation, or, something new, the evolution of ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • The Gospel of the Redman

    This commemorative edition contains for the first time Seton's drawings of American Indian motifs, a selection of photographs illustrating his life, information about his role as founder of the Boys Scouts of America. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Crystal Legends

    Stories of crystals and gemstones in myth and legend

    Crystals and gemstones have been a source of fascination since Neolithic times; they endure when the bones of those they have adorned have turned to dust. Such was the profundity of crystal lore that ancient peoples incorporated crystals and gemstones as dynamic and potent symbols in their legends and myths.In Crystal Legends Moyra Caldecott approaches crystals from a new angle, retelling the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus